A take on the Southside cocktail, with added cucumber created in 2004 by George Delgado in NYC. The freshness of the cucumber and mint pops out from the Gin balanced base.&nbsp;Bartender Tip:Placing the mint within your palms and clapping will release the aromatic mint oils from the leaves.

Easy

Alcohol

Bitter

Sour

Sweet

EastSide

Get your mint leaves and cut your lime ready for juicing and cucumber for garnish

Knife

Prepare

Place the mint leaves and one cucumber slice in your shaker and muddle gently

Muddler

Shaker

Mint leaves

Cucumber

Muddle

Fill both the martini glass and your shaker with ice

Ice scoop

Martini glass

Pour in the gin, lime juice and sugar syrup into your shaker

Jigger

Mexican Elbow Juicer

Lime Juice

Sugar syrup

Add ingredients

Close the shaker lid and shake hard for 7 seconds

Shake

Empty the ice in your martini glass back into the ice bucket. Take off the small top off the shaker and Fine Strain into your coupe

How to make EastSide - video recipe